CD review: 'Scattered Rhymes'

Published 4:00 am, Sunday, April 27, 2008

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Tarik O'Regan: "Scattered Rhymes"

Tarik O'Regan: "Scattered Rhymes"

CD review: 'Scattered Rhymes'

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The rippling vocal invention and vibrant rhythmic pulses of Guillaume de Machaut's thrilling 14th century Notre Dame Mass radiate across the centuries to Tarik O'Regan's "Scattered Rhymes" (2006) in this appealing disc devoted to musical and poetic affinities. O'Regan employs some of his predecessor's phrases and arresting harmonies in a dramatic 2006 setting of a text by Petrarch, Machaut's contemporary, about the poet's anguished love for a young woman. Machaut's Mass, sung a little dankly by the Estonian Philharmonic Choir, follows. The album also offers a second O'Regan homage to Machaut and juxtaposes a serenely sumptuous sacred work by 15th century master Guillaume Dufay and Gavin Bryars' spare 2000 meditation, "Super Flumina."

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